The first thing that came to Weiss mind as she stared down the barrel of a white fang soldiers rifle was how pissed clement would be if he knew his sacrifice had been pointless. The Towering Orange-haired Imbecile had somehow wormed his way into Weiss heart, and a part of Her wanted to at least offer his memory by going down fighting. Keeping her eyes glued to the soldier, she slowly shifted her hand towards Mysentar's hilt.
The soldier vanished in a flash of red, his rifle clattering to the ground and letting off a shot that blasted a hole through the nearest tree. The other soldiers opened fire, but they quickly fell to the red blur, clutching at their wounds as they howled in pain. Looking up she noticed the soldier who held her at gunpoint suspended by his underwear from the top of one of the ancient pines.
Reappearing among the fallen soldiers, ruby fell back into her fighting stance as her breathing steadied. It was that calm that had kept her from making the same mistakes others did. Even now, with her idols and best friend dead, and two teammates wounded, she wouldn't kill anyone. Weiss had killed her first during the vytal invasion, a young gecko Faunus with bright green hair. She still saw him in her dreams.
The air was split by a great boom, then Ruby was caught in the side and slammed into a tree. Almost breaking the old blackened sentinel in two. A massive bear Faunus emerged from the tree's, blowing smoke from two cannons strapped to his arms. Glancing around at the wounded soldiers he grunted in amusement, kicking one in her wound and causing her to screech in pain. With a growl he silenced her, pressing his boot against her neck until it snapped loudly.
More Troops emerged from the tree's, dressed in black and blue. They quickly silenced the other wounded soldiers, cutting their throats with strange curved knives. One raising his rifle to put two shots in the man dangling from the tree. They reminded Weiss of the soldiers that had accompanied her sister when she had been a specialist. They even moved the same way, always on their toes, always alert, with a quiet confidence that betrayed their skill.
The Bear Faunus kicked Ruby, who flopped over into the snow. He grumbled something to himself, then turned to her.
"And that leaves you, Ice-Bitch"
he bared his fangs and hit her with a whiff of rotten meat and blood. Weiss drew Mysentar and conjured a glyph below her to spring her away from the Faunus. But he was faster, knocking her across the clearing with a backhanded blow. Weiss rolled in the snow, coming to stop by one of the soldiers, who raised his rifle to strike her again, but the darkness took her before he could land the blow.
Weiss came too in complete darkness as someone screamed. The world shook, and she fell over, enough for her blindfold to slip and her to see the bear Faunus dragged out the back of the bulwark by a horrifyingly disfigured Grimm. Alarms blared, soldiers screamed, and something exploded in the bulwarks cockpit.
Then it stopped.
"Miss Schnee"
Time had stopped, but one soldier hadn't. he stepped past one of his comrades who was frozen mid fall, a pipe sticking from his neck . It was the soldier she had seen before falling unconscious, or rather, it was the bellhop who had lost her luggage then vanished into thin air before she could properly berate him.
"It would have been nicer if I'd had some time to explain everything to you, but the long and short of it is that this bulwarks going down with no survivors. Im going to kick you and your team out before that happens. I trust you are strong enough to handle the rest yourselves." He turned slightly to look at the others, bound and blindfolded, before speaking again. "And time resumes."
The world moved again, the soldier fell in a spray of blood, another tumbled past, consumed in flames. A boot connected with her back, and Weiss fell into the sky.